Short film
Kręgi Snu
2000 · 10 min
A quiet, wordless plunge into a haunted man's mind, where tender homecoming and lingering trauma blur together.
- Directed by
- Bogumił Godfrejów
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Michał Michalski, Katarzyna Chmara, Anna Mielczarek
- Overview
- After years of forced labor in the Gulag, Jerzy returns home to his waiting wife and young daughter. Though life appears to return to normal, traumatic memories continue to haunt him, blurring the line between dreams and reality. Told entirely without dialogue, *Circles of Sleep* uses gestures, expressions, and glances to portray the inner world of a Gulag survivor. The film won the Golden Tadpole at the 2000 Camerimage Festival in Toruń.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Trauma, memory, isolation, family
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bogumił Godfrejów
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Michał Michalski, Katarzyna Chmara, Anna Mielczarek
